Fruit Flies

Sooo why are you here then?

I’m in the opposite situation. I keep telling everyone around me that I’m not going to get it, and everyone keeps telling me I should be more optimistic. It’s actually really frustrating because I don’t think anyone actually believes it, I think they’re just trying to be polite.

No, I got an email saying that they wanted to let me know sooner but I can still call if I want.

Just got my acceptance to Brown-NIH. Edit: Also just got into Brown NSGP I can’t believe this!

Has anyone heard from Brown or Brown-NIH?

Just got an invite from Dartmouth PEMM! Before "anybody" comes for me, they do have a Neuroscience focus haha. I think that's it for me so I'm out. I'll see you all in March when decisions come out. Good luck everyone!!!

Brown was December 22nd, Brown-NIH was December 27th.

I got both. But they might still only accept for one.

Dartmouth PEMM is meeting late this week to discuss applications. So invites might be out by Friday.

I got one this morning. Edit: Sorry, I didn't read it properly. From the program. But I had been in contact with the program coordinator, so a POI is CC'd.

Thanks! I was freaking out for a second haha. Did you get invited for both? Do you think it will be awkward interviewing for both at the same time?

Did anyone else get invited to both Brown and Brown-NIH? I’ve heard that they only accept to one but not both. Is this true?

Top applicants sometimes reject interviews. I know a young professor who got in to Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, and Berkeley who rejected interviews from other programs. So maybe they are waiting to see if they have more spots before sending rejections?

I think I got the email because I didn’t answer the call. So they just wanted to let me know.

For Dartmouth PBS it seems like they stopped releasing interviews. I will tell you what I know for further advice because I see that you're interested in Behavioral Neuro. I met the Dartmouth PEMM committee and they warned me that the PBS program is actually very limited. A lot of the professors that show up under PBS on the website are not actually in PBS, they're in PEMM. If I hadn't talked to them, I wouldn't have known and I would have made the mistake of applying to PBS based on the website. It's possible that your research interests were not actually aligned with PBS but rather with PEMM, which has a Neuroscience subdivision, although I don't know what your research is. I don't know if you or anyone else is planning on applying next round, but that's something to think about.

Dartmouth PBS has already sent out invitations. Dartmouth PEMM has historically sent theirs the first week of January.

Edit: Never mind. I was looking at UCSD MCB.

I got a call from Brown and I missed it ? Edit: But I just got the email!

Thanks! I went through your posts a bit, I too have a low gpa (3.4) so I know the struggle. Hope you get an invite!

It was a personalized email that came from a POI that I had reached out to and Skyped with.

Just got Cornell NB&B (not Weill Cornell). So happy!!!!